Dipping-wheel.



H. S. BUSBY.

DIPPING WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1 13..

Patented June 30, 1914 awuwmtoz abkorm atg HARLEY S. BUSBY, OF WASHINGTON, IO\VA.

DIPPING-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ju no 11H 4.

Application filed June 30, 1913. Serial No. 776,678.

To all 11"! om. it may concern iie it known that I, IIARLBY '5. Beam, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vtashington, in the county of \Vashiugton and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Di) ingt'thcels; and I do hereby declare the 0 lowing to he a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appcrtains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in di wheels such as are adapted for use in app ying disinfecting liquid or medicines in liquid form to hogs and other annals, the liquid being contained within a receptacle from which it is carried by capillary attraction to a eonvcnient point at which the animal will contact with it.

The present invention resides in the provision of an open trough designed to receive the liquid, the said trough having loosely iivoted therein a disk or wheel surrounded by a series of ropes or other hand or hands of liln'ous material adapted, through ca illary attraction, to convev the liquid am to become saturated therewith.

To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain,thcsaniecousistsin the weuliar construction and in the novel coin- )lltttllt ll, arrangenn-nt and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the accom ianiyiug drawings and then specifically dehnct in the appended claim.

1 illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which:---

l igurc l is a perspective view of a device eiaistrueted in accordance with my invention, and Fig. l is a horizontal section taken upon the line 9--2 of Fig. l.

llefercn c now being bad to the details of the drawings by letter. A represents the trough or receptacle within which is loosely pivoted a disk E, the said disk being centrally pivoted upon a transverse sbaftC extended through the ears B rising from the side walls of the receptacle. Extending around the outer ieriphery of the disk are ropes F, F. It will be noted that said ropes are adapted, when the wheel carrying the same rotates, to wipe against the inclined end of the receptacle in which the wheel turns.

(it designates an auxiliary trough, the lower portion of which emninunicates with the interior of the primary trough A and within the said auxiliary trough (l is looselv p voted a disk G which, like the larger dis I, is journaled upon the transverse pivot or axle H, the said disk bein also provided with peripheral bands I, sunilar in all respects to t ie bands I) upon the larger wheel.

The 0 ieration of the device will at once he rcadiy understood. The medicine or liquid compound which it is desired to use is placed within the trough A, the trough being filled to a point above the lower edges of the wheels E and (l respectivelv the said wheels being loosely pivoted will readily turn when an animal m rubbing comes in contact therewith, thus insuring the bands or ru es or other tibrotls material surrounding tie disk being at all timesthoroughly saturated with the medicine. and the liquid contained in the ropes thus saturated will be transferred to the back of an animal coming in contact therewith. The movements of the animal in rubbing against the periphery of the disk will serve. to automatically turn the wheel so as to present. a new rubbing surface or point of contact- The auxiliary tank or trough (l with its disk therein is so positioned with reference to the main trough as to present. a rubbing surface for small auimals at a point below the point at which the larger disk is exposml.

While I have shown and described ropes used as bands upon the disks or wheels and I prefer this constrin'tion. it will at once he noted that a felt coverin a web belt or a belt of any suitable fabric adapted for the purpose may be substituted. Oil or any suitable liquid insecticide may be employed within the receptacle.

It will be noted that, by the provision of a device such as I have described, a convenient means is atl'ordcd whereby liquid carried by capillary attraction through the bands upon ill] l ltl the wheels may be readily transmitted to an animal which in rubbing against the periphery of the wheel will serve to rotate it.

What I claim to be new is 2+- A dipping wheel' comprising a troughshaped receptacle withinclined ends, the opposite sides projecting above the endsand apertured, a pin projecting through said.

aperture, :1 grooved wheel'journaled upon 10 said pin, a rope wound tightly ebout thecircumference of the wheel and designed to turn within the receptacle and wipe against In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix' my 5 signature in presence of two witnesses.

, HARLEY S. BUSBY Witnesses: 4 T. W. HARWOOD, W. E. RILEY; 

